Carpentry workshop: Version Control with Git

This workshop is a collaboration between Carpentry and Data Management Week 2025

Target audience

• Graduate students
• Other researchers

Prerequisites

• In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell. Some previous experience with the shell is expected, but isn’t mandatory.

• You will need an account at github.com for parts of the Git lesson. Basic GitHub accounts are free.

• We encourage you to create a GitHub account if you don't have one already.

• Please consider what personal information you'd like to reveal. For example, you may want to review these instructions for keeping your email address private provided at GitHub.

Setup and Preparations

• Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.).
• Participants should have a few specific software packages installed, this is listed in the full course information page (button below).

There will be time for troubleshooting issues related to installation 30 minutes before the workshop starts.

Course information

Installation instructions for UiO-computers

Instructors

Lex Nederbragt, Federico Bianchini, Nicholas D. Yardley Ball

Contact

If there are questions related to installation and testing of the software packages needed, feel free to ask us via email, contact-us@swcarpentry.uio.no.

Sign-up Deadline: March 27th at 23:59

Sign-up

Other relevant courses

• Data Management Week 2025

If you are interested in other Carpentry@UiO workshops, please visit uio.no/carpentry